Report: Cavaliers Having Trouble Trading Isaac Okoro

According to Chris Fedor of Cleveland.com, the Cleveland Cavaliers are having trouble trading Isaac Okoro.

Okoro will make $11 million next season. He averaged 6.1 points, 2.4 rebounds and 1.2 assists this season in 55 games while shooting 46.4% from the field, 37.1% from beyond the arc and 71.7% from the free-throw line. 

“From everything that I’m told, they’re having a hard time finding anybody that has legitimate interest in Isaac Okoro unless Isaac also comes with some kind of sweetener from the Cavs,” Fedor said.

“Some kinds of assets attached to his contract because I think there are teams out there that are looking at Isaac and they’re saying like we’d be doing you a favor by taking on his contract, so make it worth our time to do that. Make it worthwhile for us to do that. Give us future second-round picks. Go find a first-round pick somehow that you can trade to us along with Isaac Okoro, then we’ll help you out.”

Evan Mobley signed a five-year, $224 million extension with Cleveland last summer. The big man winning the 2024-25 Defensive Player of the Year Award triggered a clause in his contract that calls for him to increase the first-year salary of his rookie-scale extension from 25 to 30% of the salary cap.

As a result, the Cavaliers are now projected to have $219 million in salary for the 2025-26 season and be over the second apron.

Cleveland was the No. 1 seed in the East this year, but the Indiana Pacers beat Kenny Atkinson’s group in the conference semifinals in five games.